Book Description
Examining the art, history and social importance of Scotland's kirkyards.
Author : Dane Love
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1445630753
Examining the art, history and social importance of Scotland's kirkyards.
Author : Dane Love
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1445630745
Scotland is a land of many ghosts and spirits and every corner of the country seems to have a least one ghost; discover them for yourself in Scottish Ghosts.
Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0141926600
The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down. Just about everything which followed in European history can be traced back in some way to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation which it provoked. The Reformation is where the modern world painfully and dramatically began, and MacCulloch's great history of it is recognised as the best modern account.
Author : MAUREEN M MEIKLE
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1291518002
The Scottish People, 1490-1625 is one of the most comprehensive texts ever written on Scottish History. All geographical areas of Scotland are covered from the Borders, through the Lowlands to the Gàidhealtachd and the Northern Isles. The chapters look at society and the economy, Women and the family, International relations: war, peace and diplomacy, Law and order: the local administration of justice in the localities, Court and country: the politics of government, The Reformation: preludes, persistence and impact, Culture in Renaissance Scotland: education, entertainment, the arts and sciences, and Renaissance architecture: the rebuilding of Scotland. In many past general histories there was a relentless focus upon the elite, religion and politics. These are key features of any medieval and early modern history books, but The Scottish People looks at less explored areas of early-modern Scottish History such as women, how the law operated, the lives of everyday folk, architecture, popular belief and culture.
Author : Roger Bowdler
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1445691124
Britain’s churchyards are among its most historic, peaceful and magical places. They are also among its most overlooked. This book will open readers eyes to the treasures to be found up and down the land.
Author : Sylvia E. Thornbush
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811441243
his interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical- cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses the conservation of the archaeological record and presents a cross-temporal perspective of landscape change – of the headstones as landforms in their landscape (as part of deathscapes). The physical record (of headstones) is examined in the context of both cultural representation and change. In this way, an integrated approach is employed that connects the physical (natural) and cultural (social) records kept by historians and archeologists over the years. Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards is of interest to geomorphologists, historians and scholars interested in understanding landscaping studies and cultural nuance of specific historical urban sites in England and Scotland.
Author : Sarah Sharp
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2024-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1474483445
Examines Scottish Romantic writers’ shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead Describes the role played by death and the grave in Scottish Romantic cultural nationalism Explores engagement of authors including James Hogg, John Galt and John Wilson with contemporary debates around anatomy, contagion, psychology and migration, providing new contexts for canonical Scottish Romantic texts Considers how kirkyard Romanticism helped to shape understandings of national identity both at home and abroad The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William Blackwood were the crucible for this new form of Scottish cultural nationalism. Scottish Romantic authors including James Hogg, John Wilson and John Galt, use the Romantic kirkyard to engage with, and often challenge, contemporary ideas of modernity. The book also explores the extensive ripples that this cultural moment generated across Scottish, British and wider Anglophone literary sphere over the next century.
Author : James Grant
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Graeme Morton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1000203751
Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century meteorologists turned to environmental determinism to explain the persistence of agricultural shortage and to identify the atmospheric conditions that exacerbated the incidence of death and disease in the towns. In these cases, the logic of emigration and the benefits of an alternative climate were compelling. Emigration agents portrayed their favoured climate in order to pull migrants in their direction. The climate reasons, pressures and incentives that resulted in the movement of people have been neither straightforward nor uniform. There are known structural features that contextualize the migration experience, chief among them being economic and demographic factors. By building on the work of historical climatologists, and the availability of long-run climate data, for the first time the emigration history of Scotland is examined through the lens of the nation’s climate. In significant per capita numbers, the Scots left the cold country behind; yet the ‘homeland’ remained an unbreakable connection for the diaspora.
Author : James Maclehose
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.